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Said Nursi

Turkish Theologian

Born: 1878

Died: 1960

God Heart Knowledge Truth Universe World

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If you can visualize the whole of spring and see Paradise with the eye of belief, you may understand the utter majesty of everlasting Beauty. If you respond to that Beauty with the beauty of belief and worship, you will be a most beautiful creature. Said Nursi

Do not suffer pain and torment without reason. Somebody All-Powerful and All-Compassionate owns everything. Rely on His Power and do not accuse His Compassion. Renounce grief and anxiety ad accept relief. Be rid of your troubles and find serenity. Said Nursi

Grief Anxiety Compassion Somebody Power Pain Everything Torment Relief Find All-Powerful Rely Troubles Accept Without Renounce His Accuse Owns Your Rid Reason Serenity Suffer Ad

The beauty of a finely worked object points to the beauty of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the craftsmanship points to the beauty of the name which was the source of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the name of the craftsman's art points to the beauty of the craftsman's attributes manifested in that art. Said Nursi

Art Beauty Finely Object Points Name Attributes Source Craftsman Craftsmanship Which Manifested Worked

What agent is there other than the Creator of the heavens and earth who can know whatever occurs in our heart, down to its most subtle and secret thoughts, and illuminate the future for us by establishing the Hereafter, saving us from the countless suffocating waves of the world? Said Nursi

Future Thoughts Heart World Whatever Down Other Saving Secret Our Waves Earth Countless Know Most Occurs Than Heavens Establishing Subtle Agent Us Who Illuminate Creator Suffocating Hereafter

The origin of all revolutions and corruption, and the spur and source of all base morals are just two sayings: The First Saying: 'So long as I'm full, what is it to me if others die of hunger?' The Second Saying: 'You suffer hardship so that I can live in ease; you work so that I can eat.' Said Nursi

Work Saying Me You Corruption Long First Live Others Ease Sayings Hunger Eat Morals Source Spur Die Revolutions Just Full Origin Base Suffer Hardship Second Two

People who do not recognize their Owner and discover their Master are miserable and bewildered. But those who do, and then take refuge in His Mercy and rely on His Power, see this desolate world transformed into a place of rest and felicity, a place of exchange for the Hereafter. Said Nursi

People World Rest Miserable Power Mercy Master Desolate Those Recognize See Rely Take Exchange Bewildered Felicity Discover His Owner Refuge Place Transformed Then Who Hereafter

The mirror to the beautiful is beautiful. Said Nursi

Beautiful Mirror

Sin penetrates to the heart, darkens and hardens it until it extinguishes the light of belief. Each sin has a path that leads to unbelief. Unless that sin is swiftly obliterated by seeking God's forgiveness, it grows from a worm into a snake that gnaws at the heart. Said Nursi

God Forgiveness Heart Light Path Snake Worm Unless Unbelief Seeking Sin Leads Until Swiftly Each Belief Grows

If our inner being was to be turned to the outside, and our outer being turned inward, we would appear with more wounds and diseases than the Prophet Job. For each sin that we commit and each doubt that enters our mind causes wounds in our heart and our spirit. Said Nursi

I can bear my own sorrows, but the sorrows arising from the calamities visiting Islam and Muslims have crushed me. I feel each blow delivered to the Muslim world as delivered first to my own heart. Said Nursi

I can live without bread, but I can't live without freedom. Said Nursi

Freedom Live Without Bread

The life of the hereafter is the outcome of all this world. Said Nursi

Life World Outcome Hereafter

The Qur'an, throughout all of its verses, aims mainly to establish and confirm four basic, universal truths: the existence and Oneness of the Maker of the universe; Prophethood; bodily Resurrection; and worship and justice. Said Nursi

Justice Universe Aims Worship Oneness Throughout Resurrection Mainly Maker Existence Verses Truths Establish Confirm Bodily Basic Four Universal

The fact that there is a unity in everything demonstrates that they are the works and artefacts of a single being. The universe is like a rosebud swathed in a thousand veils of unity. Or it is a single macroanthropos dressed in unities to the number of Divine Names and universal Divine works. Said Nursi

Single Unity Universe Everything Thousand Dressed Fact Divine Like Names Being Works Universal Number

When I was ten years old, I had great pride in myself, which sometimes even took the form of boasting and self-praise; although I myself did not want to, I used to assume the air of someone undertaking some great work and mighty act of heroism. Said Nursi

Work Myself Great Sometimes Pride Old Assume Heroism Took Air Some Someone Ten Ten Years Great Pride Had Great Work Although Undertaking Years Did Want Form Which Boasting Mighty Act Used Even

Tahir Pasha assigned me a room when I was staying in his residence, and every night before sleeping, I would spend around three hours going over the books I had memorized. It would take me three months to go through the lot. Thanks be to God, all those works became steps ascending to the truths of the Qur'an. Said Nursi

God Me Three Before Thanks Every Sleeping Spend Books Months Those Would Staying Through Take Had Steps Over Hours Became Around Go His Lot Truths Going Ascending Room Works Residence Assigned Every Night Night

Belief contains so many truths pertaining to God's Names and the realities contained in the universe that the most perfect science, knowledge, and virtue is belief and knowledge of God originating in a belief based on argument and investigation. Said Nursi

God Knowledge Science Argument Universe Virtue Perfect Investigation Contained Contains Names Most Truths Realities Pertaining Many Belief Based

The Qur'an, the universe, and humanity are three kinds of manifestations of one truth. Said Nursi

Truth Humanity Three Universe Kinds

The beauty of man's being, fashioned as he is in the fairest of forms, demonstrates the existence of the Maker, while at the same time the fact that, together with his comprehensive abilities, lodged in that fairest of forms, he soon declines and dies, demonstrates the existence of the resurrection. Said Nursi

Something theoretical in the past may become evident and established in the present or in the future. It is a self-evident fact that creation has an innate tendency towards perfection, and it is through this that creation is bound to the law of development or gradual perfection. Said Nursi

Future Law Become Past Creation Evident Something Fact Tendency Through Perfection Development Bound Towards Self-Evident Gradual May Established In The Past Theoretical Innate Present

Some sciences need mutual support and assistance to develop. The majority of these are physical sciences. Mutual support has almost no use in other disciplines, such as attainment of intuitive knowledge of God or spiritual progress. Said Nursi

The divine wisdom which requires a division of labor has sown different abilities and tendencies in human nature and has enabled human beings to carry out the duty of establishing sciences and developing technology. The fulfillment of this duty is obligatory upon humanity as a whole, though not on every individual. Said Nursi

Wisdom Nature Technology Humanity Duty Human Nature Every Though Out Carry Ability Obligatory Tendencies Individual Divine Division Developing Sciences Labor Human Sown Establishing Different Human Beings Which Fulfillment Requires Whole Beings

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